AMBAZONIANS: "amba" terrorists (Roger Akem, Edith Ngang, Walters Muma) going to prison in the USA

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AMBAZONIANS: "amba" terrorists (Roger Akem, Edith Ngang, Walters Muma) going to prison in the USA

*** not a feint it's gruesome & has nudity***

Show video to the pro-BLM wigger boys & gurls.


Vamba Donzo was from the area.


The worst video you ever saw. Ambazonia terrorists Beheading a woman in Muyuka, SW region of Cameroon, 11 Aug 2020

By KumKum Massa

Aug 11, 2020

The worst video you ever saw. Ambazonia terrorists Beheading a woman in Muyuka, SW region of Cameroon, 11 Aug 2020. Thos [sic] young woman was BUTCHERED like a wild animal. Lets watch and see if the so-called Amnesty International will condemn this attack, and CALL the ambazonia TERRORISTS for what they are. Let us see if the so-called Human “Rice” Watch will utter a statement.
More information about her name, details, will come later in the comment section.. for now, just watch this video, and you will understand the Ambazonia Terrorism that is happening in Cameroon.
Autodownloads video Muyuka beheading – 11 Aug 2020.gpp

SEE Video at site.



After beheading the woman, they took pictures and bragged about it on Facebook.
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Ambazonia Terrorism, Woman Murdered and filmed in Muyuka, SW region of Cameroon, 11 Aug 2020
 
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AMBAZONIANS: "amba" terrorists (Roger Akem, Edith Ngang, Walters Muma) going to prison in the USA

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amba terrorists (Roger Akem, Edith Ngang, Walters Muma) going to prison in the USA

In total, FOUR confirmed amba Terrorists have been CONFIRMED to have been indicted in the USA, and they have already started pleading GUILTY. Tamufor St. Michal was the first to be indicted in July 2019, then Roger Akem followed in 2020. In March 2020, Roger Akem Pleaded Guilty to two counts, facing a maximum prison time of 25 years.

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Walters Alambi Muma was also arrested and indicted, as well as Edith Ngang, (AKA Ma Ngang) who we will focus on today, because she has been the most vocal and public figure amogst those indicted.
Case 1:21-cr-00195-CCB Document 1 Filed 06/01/21 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND
*UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. EDITH NGANG (Defendant.)*
CRIMINAL NO. CCB 21-cr-195

EDITH NGANG
did knowingly and willfully combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with others, known and unknown to the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, to commit certain offenses against the United States, that is:

  1. to knowingly and willfully export and attempt to export from the United States to Nigeria ammunition, firearms, and various other items, which were defense articles listed on the United States Munitions List,

  • to knowingly and willfully export and attempt to export ammunition, firearms and various other items from the United States to Nigeria, in violation of 50 U.S.C. §§ 4801 et seq. (the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (“ECRA”);
  • to knowingly and willfully export and attempt to export ammunition, firearms and various other items from the United States, in violation of 50 U.S.C. §§ 1701-1707 (the International Emergency Powers Act (“IEEPA”));
  • to fraudulently and knowingly export or send from the United States, or attempt to export or send from the United States, any merchandise, article, or object contrary to any law or regulation of the United States,, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 554 (smuggling);
  • to knowingly file and cause the filing of false electronic export information, in violation of 13 U.S.C. § 305;
  • to engage in the business of importing, manufacturing and dealing in firearms without a license and in the course of such business ship, transport and receive firearms in interstate and foreign commerce, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §922(a)(1);
    • to deliver to a common carrier for transport in foreign commerce items that contained firearms and ammunition without providing written notice to the carrier, in violation of
18U.S.C. §922(e), and totransportandcausetobetransportedinforeigncommercefirearmswith obliterated serial numbers, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §922(k).
Object of the Conspiracy
2.Itwastheobjectoftheconspiracythat NGANG and her co-conspirators would obtain defense articles, such as firearms and ammunition, and other items with military applications, such as desert boots and water packs, in the United States, conceal them in overseas shipping containers in order to secretly export the items to Nigeria without obtaining a license or disclosing the true contents of the shipments to the overseas carrier or to United States government authorities, and to evade or violate the regulations, prohibitions, and licensing requirements of the AECA, ECRA, and IEEPA.


EDITH NGANG
did knowingly and willfully export, cause to be exported, and attempt to export from the United States to Nigeria, certain items, that is: 39 firearms of various makes, models and calibers; 45 magazines of various makes, models and calibers; and at least 39,000 rounds of ammunition of various makes, models and calibers, which were all defense articles included on the United States Munitions List, without having first obtained from the Department of State a license or written authorization for such export.
 
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Cameroon
Meet Christopher John Lamora, an American diplomat, President Biden’s nominee to be the US Ambassador to Cameroon





Jun 9, 2021
Christopher Lamora most recently served as the Deputy Chief of Mission/Chargé d’Affaires U.S. Embassy Accra, Ghana, and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Africa and African Security Affairs from September 2017 to May 2018. In this capacity, he was also the senior U.S. representative to the International Contact Group for the Great Lakes region of Africa. He was previously the Director of the Office of Central African Affairs and, before that, Deputy Director of the Office of African Economic and Regional Affairs.
 
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https://www.modernghana.com/news/1088928/cameroon-anglophone-separatist-supporters-in.html

Cameroon Anglophone separatist 'supporters' in US charged with gun smuggling

By Laura Angela Bagnetto - RFI

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LISTEN JUN 18, 2021

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Three US-based Anglophone Cameroonians have been charged with gun running and conspiracy following the seizure of a weapons cache by US authorities. The suspects, some who appear to support the Anglophone separatist movement in their country of origin, could be implicated in an effort to supply high-grade weapons and ammunition to fighters battling Cameroonian government forces.
The three cases in the US federal court system involve a navy reservist, a healthcare attendant and a healthcare business owner.
Each case involves alleged shipping or attempting to ship weapons and military goods from the United States to Nigeria, including ammunition, without an export license. The other charge includes conspiracy to ship weapons.
The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) seized military-grade weapons and military equipment from two shipping containers and two different homes between May and August 2019.
According to the affidavit from an ATF agent, 131 orders from two online gun retailers were shipped to a home in Rosedale, Maryland in the US between March 2018 and March 2019. The large number of items was flagged by ATF, along with other information, leading to a search of the premises.
Tamufor Nchumuluh St Michael, the resident and homeowner, was not present during the search, but turned himself in less than a week later in 2019.
Nchumuluh, who is originally from Cameroon, is a naturalised US citizen and a US Navy reservist. His case, which documents the 80 pieces of equipment, including high calibre rifles, a silencer and firearm parts and accessories that were seized from his home.
He had already been accused of converting shipping high-powered AR-15s and AK-47s, according to press reports in 2019.
A number of businesses, including a community youth soccer organisation, a restaurant or catering business, and the “Palm Tennis International Federation” is registered at his address. It is not clear whether these US-registered businesses are connected.
Since this was the first federal case in the affair, the judicial proceedings are to be handled out of the federal courts in Baltimore.
Both Nchumuluh's lawyer and the US Attorney's Office handling the case declined to comment.
No terrorism charges

Another defendant in a related case, detailing the same exhibit list of 39 firearms, 45 gun magazines of various calibres and at least 39,000 rounds of ammunition, will go in front of the judge at the end of June.
Edith Ngang, an Anglophone Cameroonian and naturalised US citizen, has also been hit with exporting guns without a license charges and conspiracy. The nurse and healthcare business owner is a mother of four who lives in Minnesota and does not have a criminal record, nor are there other charges involved, according to her lawyer.
:niglet::niglet::niglet::niglet:

“There are no terrorism allegations in this case,” Kirk Anderson, the lawyer acting for Ngang, told RFI. “The Cameroonian government in not involved in this case either."
Recent reports in the Cameroon francophone media depict the charges a move by the Cameroonian government, calling Ngang a “terrorist”.
Her case, while connected, appears as an accessory to the Nchumuluh case. The two residences where guns were seized are not hers.
However, the court documents state that she reloaded ammunition in the basement of a home in Maryland.
It also details a series of coded WhatsApp messages, exchanged at the time, purportedly showing that the weapons would be concealed in a truck that she owned and put into a shipping container for Nigeria.
“I wanted to say that the title of the truck needs to be changed out of my name before we can ship it. I have it here. Who will I transfer it to and how fast will a new one come?” is one message allegedly written by her and cited by court documents.
Ngang's uncle, Augustine Ambe, a videographer and member of the diaspora Anglophone community in the US, attested to her generous spirit and her activism in the Anglophone separatist cause.
He stressed that she has always been vocal at fundraising events to encourage people to contribute aid to Anglophone Cameroonians who are still under assault in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon.
In addition to her healthcare business, she also has links to a number of US-registered companies that had operated from her home in Minnesota.
This includes Ambazonian Women for Independence, which is currently inactive, according to a search on company records by RFI.
Additionally, one of the addresses in Minnesota where ammunition was confiscated, is also listed as an address used by a company called Ambazonia Public Affairs Committee.
“She's very vocal about the injustices that the people in Southern Cameroons have been going through over the years,” Ambe tells RFI, referring to the historical name the separatists call the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon.
'Marginalisation'

Cameroon's Anglophone crisis began in late 2017, when professionals, including teachers and lawyers, peacefully protested on the streets of Bamenda, the capital of North-West Cameroon.
Anglophones were angry about the perceived marginalisation by the Francophone ruling majority, especially over the use of French in the legal and education systems.
Their protests were violently quashed by Cameroonian security forces, which propelled some Anglophone separatists to take up arms against the security forces, later making a self-declaration of independence.
“The community is very traumatised – we see pictures of refugees in Nigeria and internally displaced people,” says Ambe.
“What the community has done, whenever we gather, we contribute money and support,” he says, referring to the diaspora community in the US.
“We have a lot of refugees in Nigeria – that's mostly what the effort has been,” he says, referring to the more than 65,400 Cameroonians who have fled violence, according to UNHCR.
There is no indication that these alleged shipments were intended for refugees. Nor is it clear who was the intended recipient of these weapons, allegedly slated for shipment to Nigeria, which borders Cameroon's North-West and South-West regions.
Separatist weapons not from diaspora

The weapons used by separatists in Anglophone Cameroon are typically poached or stolen from the Cameroonian security forces, according to Arrey Ntui, Cameroon analyst for the International Crisis Group, a non-governmental organisation working on conflict resolution and prevention.
“The majority of weapons in the keep and use by pro-Southern Cameroons independence militia appear to have come local Cameroonian sources,” says Ntui.
“In the early days of the conflict, separatists used Dane guns (an old-fashioned hunting rifle), locally available and also sourced from Nigeria,” he says, adding that it is difficult to track the weapons that have been sourced from Nigeria.
While Anglophone Cameroonians in the diaspora have contributed to humanitarian causes for other Cameroonians as well as remittance payments, only small groups of separatist militia have exclusive attachment to single leaders abroad, says Ntui, indicating that separatists are not being controlled or manoeuvred by those outside of the country.
“Ground fighters appear less willing to blindly obey those abroad,” he says, noting that local actors ignore a lot of the quarrelling between overseas leaders as they are focused on the situation at hand.
Supporters of Anglophone separatists have previously been involved in innovative schemes to raise money for the self-declared state of Ambazonia, notably a cryptocurrency called AmbaCoin.
The third related case of gun running without a license and conspiracy involves Alambi Walters Muma, who identifies as a member of Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), an Anglophone Cameroonian political organisation.
Muma, a registered home health care assistant in the US, according to information seen by RFI, will be arraigned the day after Ngang on 1 July.
Neither Muma's public defender nor the US Attorney's Office would comment on his case.
All three cases are federal cases, and both charges are felonies.
Conspiracy charges carry a maximum possible sentence of up to five years, according to law firm Wallin & Klarich, as well as a fine of up to $250,000.
Unlawful export of defence articles carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and a fine of up to $1 million, says Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute.


Send them all back so USA taxpayers don't have to pay for Hotel bills (prison, lawyers)
 
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The only article i found is out of UK, no news in USA has covered story. QZ & AP gave story limited coverage ONCE.

US Navy has egg on their face & gave no comment.


https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cameroon-anglophone-separatist-supporters-us-164849532.html

Cameroon Anglophone separatist 'supporters' in US charged with gun smuggling

18 June 2021·7-min read

Three US-based Anglophone Cameroonians have been charged with gun running and conspiracy following the seizure of a weapons cache by US authorities. The suspects, some who appear to support the Anglophone separatist movement in their country of origin, could be implicated in an effort to supply high-grade weapons and ammunition to fighters battling Cameroonian government forces.
The three cases in the US federal court system involve a navy reservist, a healthcare attendant and a healthcare business owner.
Each case involves alleged shipping or attempting to ship weapons and military goods from the United States to Nigeria, including ammunition, without an export license. The other charge includes conspiracy to ship weapons.
The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) seized military-grade weapons and military equipment from two shipping containers and two different homes between May and August 2019.
According to the affidavit from an ATF agent, 131 orders from two online gun retailers were shipped to a home in Rosedale, Maryland in the US between March 2018 and March 2019. The large number of items was flagged by ATF, along with other information, leading to a search of the premises.
Tamufor Nchumuluh St Michael, the resident and homeowner, was not present during the search, but turned himself in less than a week later in 2019.
Nchumuluh, who is originally from Cameroon, is a naturalised US citizen and a US Navy reservist. His case, which documents the 80 pieces of equipment, including high calibre rifles, a silencer and firearm parts and accessories that were seized from his home.
He had already been accused of converting shipping high-powered AR-15s and AK-47s, according to press reports in 2019.[QZ & AP]
A number of businesses, including a community youth soccer organisation, a restaurant or catering business, and the “Palm Tennis International Federation” is registered at his address. It is not clear whether these US-registered businesses are connected.
Since this was the first federal case in the affair, the judicial proceedings are to be handled out of the federal courts in Baltimore.
Both Nchumuluh’s lawyer and the US Attorney’s Office handling the case declined to comment.
No terrorism charges

Another defendant in a related case, detailing the same exhibit list of 39 firearms, 45 gun magazines of various calibres and at least 39,000 rounds of ammunition, will go in front of the judge at the end of June.
Edith Ngang, an Anglophone Cameroonian and naturalised US citizen, has also been hit with exporting guns without a license charges and conspiracy.
The nurse and healthcare business owner is a mother of four who lives in Minnesota and does not have a criminal record, nor are there other charges involved, according to her lawyer.
“There are no terrorism allegations in this case,” Kirk Anderson, the lawyer acting for Ngang, told RFI. “The Cameroonian government in not involved in this case either."
Recent reports in the Cameroon francophone media depict the charges a move by the Cameroonian government, calling Ngang a “terrorist”.
Her case, while connected, appears as an accessory to the Nchumuluh case. The two residences where guns were seized are not hers.
However, the court documents state that she reloaded ammunition in the basement of a home in Maryland.
It also details a series of coded WhatsApp messages, exchanged at the time, purportedly showing that the weapons would be concealed in a truck that she owned and put into a shipping container for Nigeria.
“I wanted to say that the title of the truck needs to be changed out of my name before we can ship it. I have it here. Who will I transfer it to and how fast will a new one come?” is one message allegedly written by her and cited by court documents.
Ngang’s uncle, Augustine Ambe, a videographer and member of the diaspora Anglophone community in the US, attested to her generous spirit and her activism in the Anglophone separatist cause.
He stressed that she has always been vocal at fundraising events to encourage people to contribute aid to Anglophone Cameroonians who are still under assault in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon.
In addition to her healthcare business, she also has links to a number of US-registered companies that had operated from her home in Minnesota.
This includes Ambazonian Women for Independence, which is currently inactive, according to a search on company records by RFI.
Additionally, one of the addresses in Minnesota where ammunition was confiscated, is also listed as an address used by a company called Ambazonia Public Affairs Committee.
“She’s very vocal about the injustices that the people in Southern Cameroons have been going through over the years,” Ambe tells RFI, referring to the historical name the separatists call the two Anglophone regions of Cameroon.
'Marginalisation'

Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis began in late 2017, when professionals, including teachers and lawyers, peacefully protested on the streets of Bamenda, the capital of North-West Cameroon.
Anglophones were angry about the perceived marginalisation by the Francophone ruling majority, especially over the use of French in the legal and education systems.
Their protests were violently quashed by Cameroonian security forces, which propelled some Anglophone separatists to take up arms against the security forces, later making a self-declaration of independence.
“The community is very traumatised – we see pictures of refugees in Nigeria and internally displaced people,” says Ambe.
“What the community has done, whenever we gather, we contribute money and support,” he says, referring to the diaspora community in the US.
“We have a lot of refugees in Nigeria – that’s mostly what the effort has been,” he says, referring to the more than 65,400 Cameroonians who have fled violence, according to UNHCR.
There is no indication that these alleged shipments were intended for refugees. Nor is it clear who was the intended recipient of these weapons, allegedly slated for shipment to Nigeria, which borders Cameroon’s North-West and South-West regions.
Separatist weapons not from diaspora

The weapons used by separatists in Anglophone Cameroon are typically poached or stolen from the Cameroonian security forces, according to Arrey Ntui, Cameroon analyst for the International Crisis Group, a non-governmental organisation working on conflict resolution and prevention.
“The majority of weapons in the keep and use by pro-Southern Cameroons independence militia appear to have come local Cameroonian sources,” says Ntui.
“In the early days of the conflict, separatists used Dane guns (an old-fashioned hunting rifle), locally available and also sourced from Nigeria,” he says, adding that it is difficult to track the weapons that have been sourced from Nigeria.
While Anglophone Cameroonians in the diaspora have contributed to humanitarian causes for other Cameroonians as well as remittance payments, only small groups of separatist militia have exclusive attachment to single leaders abroad, says Ntui, indicating that separatists are not being controlled or manoeuvred by those outside of the country.
“Ground fighters appear less willing to blindly obey those abroad,” he says, noting that local actors ignore a lot of the quarrelling between overseas leaders as they are focused on the situation at hand.
Supporters of Anglophone separatists have previously been involved in innovative schemes to raise money for the self-declared state of Ambazonia, notably a cryptocurrency called AmbaCoin.
The third related case of gun running without a license and conspiracy involves Alambi Walters Muma, who identifies as a member of Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), an Anglophone Cameroonian political organisation.
Muma, a registered home health care assistant in the US, according to information seen by RFI, will be arraigned the day after Ngang on 1 July.
Neither Muma’s public defender nor the US Attorney’s Office would comment on his case.
All three cases are federal cases, and both charges are felonies.
Conspiracy charges carry a maximum possible sentence of up to five years, according to law firm Wallin & Klarich, as well as a fine of up to $250,000.
Unlawful export of defence articles carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and a fine of up to $1 million, says Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute.
 
Unlawful export of defence articles carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and a fine of up to $1 million, says Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute.
4 years

Dibussi Tande on Twitter: "Tse Ernst Bangarie & Edith Ngang each ...

Apr 22, 2023 U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Tse Ernst Bangarie, age 47, of Hyattsville, Maryland, and co-defendant Edith Ngang, age 57, of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, each to 46 months in federal.



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Ma Ngang, (Edith Ngang) and 10 other ambazonians in MD USA will be sentenced in late August or September 2022. The Judge informed all counsel connected to case, including Nsahlai. BN Exclusive


Criminal Investigation | April 21, 2023

Two Conspirators Sentenced to Almost Four Years in Federal Prison for Illegally Exporting Firearms, Ammunition, and Military-Type Items to Nigeria to Assist Separatists Fighting Against the Government of Cameroon

DCIS
U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Tse Ernst Bangarie, age 47, of Hyattsville, Maryland, and co-defendant Edith Ngang, age 57, of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, each to 46 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for conspiracy, and for illegally exporting firearms and ammunition from the United States to Nigeria without obtaining the required licenses from the U.S. State Department. According to court documents, the purpose of the conspiracy was to assist separatists fighting against the government of Cameroon. Bangarie was sentenced on April 18, 2023 and Ngang was sentenced yesterday.
 
Tamufor St. Michal


Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Erek L. Barron
, United States Attorney
www.justice.gov/usao-md

Rosedale Man Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison for a Conspiracy To Smuggle Firearms and Other Military Items From the United States To Assist Separatists Fighting Against the Government of Cameroon​


Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Tamufor Nchumuluh St. Michael, age 42, of Rosedale, Maryland, yesterday to 30 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for conspiracy and for violating the Arms Export Control Act by sending firearms, ammunition, and other military-type items from the United States to Nigeria without obtaining a license from the U.S. Department of State. The arms were intended to assist separatists fighting against the government of Cameroon.

The sentence was announced by Erek L. Barron, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland; Special Agent in Charge James C. Harris of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”) Baltimore; Special Agent in Charge Toni M. Crosby of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) Baltimore Field Division; and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Dillard of the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General, Defense Criminal Investigative Service (“DCIS”) - Mid-Atlantic Field Office.

According to his plea agreement, from at least November 2017 continuing until July 19, 2019, St. Michael and his co-defendants conspired with each other and with others to export firearms, ammunition and other military type items from the United States to Nigeria. Between March 2018 and July 2019, St. Michael and his co-conspirators purchased, both over the internet and in person, large amounts of ammunition, ammunition reloading supplies, firearms, firearm parts and other military-type items, which were sent to St. Michael’s residence. St. Michael purchased at least 24 different rifles online, which he picked up at a firearms retailer in Essex, Maryland. In each case, he certified an ATF Firearms Transaction Form certifying that he was the actual transferee or buyer of the firearm. St. Michael knew the certificates were false because the guns were purchased to export overseas.

In December 2018, a shipping container with a 1989 Toyota truck inside was delivered to the street outside St. Michael’s residence. St. Michael and other co-conspirators loaded the container, secreting 38 firearms, 28 of which had the obliterated serial numbers, including sniper rifles, SKS assault rifles (some with bayonets), other rifles and several handguns. They also concealed 44 high-capacity magazines, two rifle scopes and over 35,000 rounds of ammunition in the container The conspirators concealed the firearms, ammunition, rifle scopes, and other items in duffle bags and heavily wrapped packages inside sealed compressor units, placing those items into the shipping container. The container was sent to the Port of Baltimore for export, departing on January 17, 2019, with a destination of Onne, Nigeria. Co-conspirator Tse Ernst Bangarie caused the electronic export information (“EEI”) to be filed with the Department of Commerce, listing the contents of the container as one Toyota Tundra truck, one 1989 Toyota truck, and “doors and frames.” The EEI also listed the U.S. Principal Party in Interest as an individual with the initials M.A.O. and a non-existent address. The telephone number listed for M.A.O. corresponded with a pre-paid cellular telephone. Bangarie knew that much of the information on the EEI was false and he intentionally did not include any mention of the firearms, ammunition and other items hidden in the container.

Approximately one month later, the shipping container was ordered returned to the Port of Baltimore and on May 20, 2019, law enforcement personnel in Baltimore unsealed the container and examined its contents. In addition to the trucks and what appeared to be the contents of an old schoolhouse, the defendants and their co-conspirators had concealed firearms, ammunition, rifle scopes, and other items in duffle bags placed in the trucks and in heavily wrapped packages inside sealed compressor units, in the shipping container. In all, law enforcement recovered from the shipping container 38 firearms, 28 of which had obliterated serial numbers.

The guns included sniper rifles, SKS assault rifles (some with bayonets), other rifles and several handguns. There were 44 high-capacity magazines, two rifle scopes and over 35,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as military-type items, including boots, pepper spray, zip-tie style handcuffs, hydration packs, a “ghillie suit” designed to camouflage the wearer outdoors, and other items. The ghillie suit and other items still had shipping labels on them that were addressed to St. Michael at his residence on Golden Ring Road.

Between June 4, 2019 and June 12, 2019, St. Michael, who did not know that law enforcement had searched the container, contacted U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) several times seeking information about the container’s status. St. Michael indicated to CBP officers that he was one of five people who had put the shipment together for export and that he had cargo in the container. Eventually he sent an email to the CBP officer, attaching copies of the dock receipt and titles for the two Toyota trucks found in the container.

As detailed in his plea agreement and other court document, on July 19, 2019, law enforcement executed a search warrant at St. Michael’s residence. The basement of the residence contained machinery and equipment for the manufacturing of firearms and re-loading of ammunition, as well as rifles, handguns, firearms parts and accessories, a silencer, rifle scopes, powder, and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

St. Michael admitted that he and his co-conspirators had intentionally hidden the firearms, ammunition, and military items in the container, that he knew the information on the EEI was false, that he knew neither he nor his co-conspirators had obtained the necessary licenses or authorizations from the Departments of State or Commerce to export the firearms or military items, and that he knew his actions violated the law.
Seven other members of the conspiracy pleaded guilty to their involvement in the conspiracy. Judge Bennett sentenced Godlove Nche Manchoe, Tse Ernst Bangarie and Edith Ngang each to 46 months of incarceration and two more are awaiting are awaiting sentencing. A jury convicted three other members for the conspiracy, transportation of firearms with obliterated serial numbers, and smuggling following a jury trial in May 2022. Judge Bennett has sentenced two of those individuals, Eric Fru Nji and Wilson Nuyila Tita, to 63 months of incarceration and the third, Wilson Che Fonguh, is awaiting sentencing.

United States Attorney Erek L. Barron commended HSI, the ATF and DCIS for their work in the investigation. Mr. Barron recognized the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Export Enforcement; the U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service; the Naval Criminal Investigative Service; and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for their contributions to the investigation. U.S. Attorney Barron thanked Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen O. Gavin, who is prosecuting the case.
For more information on the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office, its priorities, and resources available to help the community, please visit https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/community-outreach.
 
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